All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
JAMES MADISONAmericans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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